# Big strings => panic

ThwartedEfforts (abakun@scinc.com)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:45:05 PDT

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    At 11:53 AM 4/19/96 PDT, Matthew Sanderson wrote:
    >It seems MOO server 1.7.8p4 panics when a string gets extremely long (I'm
    >not sure exactly how long, but I would guess LONG long).
    >Code something like:
    >
    >foo = " ";
    >while(1)
    >  foo = foo + foo;
    >  $command_utils:suspend_if_needed(0);
    >endwhile
    >
    >will panic the MOO.
    >I've seen this happen both on an HP 9000 and on a SPARCstation 20, both
    >running sysVr4.
    >I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.8.0. Spose I should have posted
    >this before now... <shrug>
    >For what it's worth...

    It's called running out of memory.  1.8.0 doesn't give your machine more
    memory, so I don't think it has been 'fixed'. :)

    Andy.